エアピープル

noun

air people; refugees fleeing by air

Refers to people who fled their country by airplane, especially Vietnamese refugees after the Vietnam War. Often contrasted with ボートピープル (boat people).

See also: ボートピープル

• ベトナム戦せん争そう後ご、多おおくのエアピープルが日本にほんに定てい住じゅうした。

  After the Vietnam War, many air people settled in Japan.

• エアピープルとボートピープルは、どちらも難なん民みんとして受うけ入いれられた。

  Both air people and boat people were accepted as refugees.